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flyover

UK/ˈflaɪˌəʊvə/US/ˈflaɪˌoʊvɚ/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,163 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: flyovers

A flyover is a road carried on a bridge over another road. Under the flyover, the flyover junction, demolish the flyover.

It is the British word; America says overpass, and in America a flyover means aircraft passing overhead instead. Many British ones from the 1960s have been pulled down, since cities decided the road had cut the place in half.

Peter Trimming · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of flyover

  1. 1nounflyoverA road carried on a bridge over another road.B2+

    “Traffic roared along the flyover above our heads while we waited at the lights below.”

flyover is a bridge.

Where it comes from

From the verb phrase to fly over, in British use for a road bridge from the 1930s.

Deverbal from fly#Verb over.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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flyover in the wild

  • In Singapore, a flyover is an overpass that crosses over another road, while a bridge is a structure that crosses a body of water.

    List of bridges in Singapore

  • Built in 1973, it is the first flyover in Chennai and the third in India.

    Anna Flyover

  • The area and the flyover is named after the now-demolished Gemini Studios.

    Anna Flyover

  • The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and Bangalore Development Authority have planned a series of flyovers and underpasses to make this arterial road signal free.

    Hosur Road

  • Chennai Airport Flyover is a 1.6 km long flyover in front of the Chennai International Airport in Chennai city.

    Chennai Airport Flyover

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.